Hotel Marwari Niwas
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Himalayas and Hollywood
... were most welcome. We managed to haul our frozen bodies to a yoga class though which was excellent, Lisa tried another one with the craziest instructor she’d ever met, he asked the class to do some extreme moves which would have ended up with torn muscles or worse had they been attempted.
We took advantage of our surroundings and went on a fantastically beautiful trek, stopping for delicious Tibetan momos’ (steamed or fried very fresh vegetable ...
(They should have) "Let it be"
... and were obviously very flimsy. Street merchants however never willing to be outdone can turn anything and everything into a selling point, all we heard for a good half an hour was that they were very good quality (at 20 rupees, approx 30p we doubted that) and made of 8 different metals. Towards the end we were tempted to say "Just 8, we see some with 10 over there" in our standard broken English. We were missing Iain here who would regularly get so it his ...
Parmath Niketan Ashram
... a log, bumping into people, roaring as loud as you can like a lion with your tongue sticking out and jumping up and down alternating between laughing hysterically and making monkey noises. You think, "This guy is completely nuts". And yet there he is, 103 years old and looking about sixty , jumping up and down, barking at the English translator and suddenly dropping to the ground and yelling, "Do this!" Twisting his legs over his head into a contorted pretzel ...
Money-theism or the worship of wealth
... Well, it is just pure rip-off ...... you will get an official receipt in return though (certifying you're a good tourist, feeding their system with your money without a murmur)!
Most of the time, you are just pushed to give: not giving is an act of bad-faith; not giving is neglecting your relatives and people you love; not giving will lead you directly to Hell ..... Very nice people! There might be ...
Where are the Beatles?
... our stay immensely! Not much to do other than eat, sleep, shop & soak up the atmosphere. We pretty much have all of the above down to a fine art! The main (and only) road is inhabited with cows & the bridge which joins both sides of Rishikesh is likewise overun by monkeys. I never tire of seeing baby monkeys clinging to their mothers' bellies while they are transported up, over & along the bridge! (usually looking for food). At both ends of ...
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